American race car driver and actor

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

, also known as "Dale Jr" or simply "Junior", is an American professional stock car racing driver, team owner, broadcaster for Amazon Prime Video and TNT Sports, and podcaster. A third-generation driver, he is the son of the late 7-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt and relative to many former and current drivers in the NASCAR ranks. Since retiring from full-time competition after the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season, he has competed in select NASCAR Xfinity Series and CARS Late Model Stock Tour races, driving for JR Motorsports, a team of which he is a founder and co-owner of and which bears his namesake.

Born

1974

October 10

Died

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1970s

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1974 Born

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732 Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
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The world in 1974

When Dale arrived

april 1 The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
april 22 Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
april 25 Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime.
april 27 One hundred nine people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.

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Daniel Pearl 1963– American-Israeli journalist (died 2002) David Lee Roth 1954– American singer-songwriter and producer Ed Wood 1924–1978 American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924) Geno Smith 1990– American football player Harold Pinter 1930–2008 English playwright, screenwriter, director, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1930) Jean-Antoine Watteau 1684–1721 French painter (born 1684) Jessica Harper 1949– American actress Ken Saro-Wiwa 1941–1995 Nigerian author and activist (born 1941) Kirsty MacColl 1959–2000 British singer-songwriter (born 1959)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Andrew Johns 1974– Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster Burn Gorman 1974– American-born English actor and musician Cameron McConville 1974– Australian racing driver and sportscaster Christian Paradis 1974– Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry Crowbar 1974– American wrestler Derek Jeter 1974– American baseball player Derrick Mason 1974– American football player Emilia Fox 1974– English actress Frank Catalanotto 1974– American baseball player

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